“When you go out into the woods, and you look at trees, you see all these different trees. And some of them are bent, and some of them are straight, and some of them are evergreens, and some of them are whatever. And you look at the tree and you allow it. You see why it is the way it is. You sort of understand that it didn’t get enough light, and so it turned that way. And you don’t get all emotional about it. You just allow it. You appreciate the tree. The minute you get ...

I woke in the middle of the night with a busy, buuuusy mind. So I did some mindful breathing for a while, which really quitened things down, but I was wide awake. I checked the time and realised it was actually past 6am. Some far off, usually redundant part of my brain that thinks early morning ...

I did a detox this week. I’ll spare you the details, but it basically involved drinking things that tasted like they’d been syphoned out of a garden drain, taking natural cleansers and probiotics. And maybe daily enemas. I’ll stop now. It was supposed to be 7 days, but I just ...

“Honour the space between no longer and not yet” I call this space the unknown. What was is no longer, what’s to be is not yet visible. And it can suck to be here. Being in the unknown is the time when we are forced to call deepest on our wisdom and faith. To listen to that ...

Today was an emotional clusterfuck. In fact, the last few days have been. Something about this month has absolutely hockeyed me. For most of December, every one of us in the family has been sick, and sometime around the 19th consecutive day of being in a confined germy space on my own with ...

Last week, I was in the park with the boys and my 4 year old was having a bit of a rough time of it – he’s an emotional kid by nature, and when he’s upset about something, he’s *really* upset. So in the midst of his tears and bellows, an older man came up to me: ...

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness That most frightens us. We ask ourselves Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. ...

I see you darkness. I feel your old familiar tug, doing what you can to pull me down into your abyss. It’s tempting, no doubt. But I have a choice. I see now that I have a choice. Before, when you sent shame, guilt and regret to the front line to beat down my defences I was powerless to ...